This weekend, there were race riots in Australia.
This didn’t happen in the US. It didn’t happen in Israel or Palestine. It didn’t happen in Iraq, Syria, Sudan or West Africa. It happened in our cities and our towns.
And instead of condemning it, a member of the sitting Government attended one of these rallies – with the full knowledge of the PM.
Today, Coalition MP George Christensen spoke at one of these rallies in support of the group that calls itself “Reclaim Australia’. He wrote in the Guardian today that “Hell would freeze over” before anyone stopped him attending the rally.
.@GChristensenMP finishes his speech with a quote from Regan. #ReclaimAustralia @abcnews pic.twitter.com/EDfm8Csjhp
— Jonathan Hair (@JonathanHair) July 19, 2015
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This is ridiculous - Islam is not a race, it's a political and military ideology that happens to have a religious aspect. Why can't members of society speak out against a practice (Sharia Law) that embodies ideas that are repugnant to liberal democratic (I.e. The "Western" civilisation) way of life?
If you actually study the Qu'ran or Sharia I'm sure that those of us who were raised in places like the U.S., Australia, Canada etc. where we take our religious and political freedom for granted, would be horrified if they understood the imposition and invasiveness Sharia and the Qu'ran have on every aspect of daily life.
I'm all for racial tolerance and freedom of religion etc, however there is a concerning and significant dissonance in allowing an ideology to flourish that does not tolerate divergence of thought or conduct, and that in its purest form seeks to impose itself on the populace, deny them rights under our established Rule of Law (especially concerning for women and children), and punish those who deviate or refuse to submit with the most barbaric of medieval cruelties - buried alive, crucified, stoned, beheaded etc.
There is a reason there is such a mass exodus of refugees from the areas where organisations such as ISIS and Hamas rule - life is harsh, brutal and joyless.
Calling people who protest against such an ideology "racist" is naive and simplistic. It's unfortunate that a certain element have adopted this protest movement (Neo-nazis, people with Iron Cross or Swastika tattoos etc), as it detracts from a genuine concern and debate about the proliferation of an ideology that itself is extremely exclusionist, invasive, brutal, misogynistic and imposing.
Photo number 10 is from a rally months back not this past weekend. I think the one that upsets me the most, well, all upset me, but the one using Rolf Harris because to me that makes light of those who were molested by him, to make a racist point. It is so low to do that.